“Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) had promised to release the package soon. We don’t understand what sin are they punishing us for? We had made a loss estimate of Rs one lakh crore, but the state government submitted a proposal of Rs 44,000 crore.”

Khan blamed the PDP government for betraying the people of Kashmir and urged the party sever ties with the BJP adding that all MLAs should resign to pretest ‘the biggest joke of the decade.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had spent his Diwali with the flood victims of Kashmir in October last year, had announced a relief package worth Rs 740 crore. This was widely termed as his ‘Diwali gift’ for the people of the valley.